dread

verb: Nervous topic

to be very afraid of something; to fear that something bad is going to happendread somethingThis was the moment he had been dreading.dread doing somethingI dread being sick.dread somebody doing somethingShe dreads her husband finding out.dread to do somethingI dread to think what would happen if there really was a fire here.dread that…I both hoped and dreaded that he would come.